RAMADAN KAREEM Summer Newsletter - July and August 2013 Dear friends of The Third Line, We would like to wish you all Ramadan Kareem and hope you h

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RAMADAN KAREEM

Summer Newsletter - July and August 2013

Dear friends of The Third Line,

We would like to wish you all Ramadan Kareem and hope you have a blessed month and a very happy Eid. The Third Line will be closed from August 1 - August 15, 2013 and the gallery will reopen on September 1, 2013. Ramadan timings will be 10AM-4PM. To visit by appointment please call +9714 3411367.

Enjoy the holidays!

CURRENT EXHIBITION

RANA BEGUM

NO. 10

June 19 - July 30, 2013

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Rana Begum, No.418, 2013, Paint on mirror finish steel, 65 x 40 x 21 cm

The Third Line is pleased to present Rana Begum's third solo show in Dubai, No.10, exhibiting metal sculptures coated with vibrant colours that push the relationship between colour, form and three-dimensional space. Taking inspiration from urban order and disorder, Begum creates surfaces and planes that are luscious and seductive. To engage with these works the viewer must walk around them, embracing the materiality and making the viewing of the work a visceral and physical experience.

The show includes wall-mounted folded metal works that vary in sizes. These are developed out of previous studies in paper and delicately emulate the weightlessness of the original material. Mild steel, mirror finish steel, copper and brass are some of the industrial materials Begum is fascinated with. Careful consideration is given to the folds and angles and colors are scrupulously applied to various facets to create crystalline compositions.

PROJECT SPACE

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Amir H. Fallah, The Arrangement, Installation view

Amir H. Fallah

The Arrangement

June 19 - July 30, 2013
The Third Line welcomes back Amir H. Fallah, who is exhibiting a selection of works in the Project Space, with a solo show to follow in December this year. In The Arrangement, Fallah works with mixed media and collage as his signature style, presenting works of floral arrangements appropriated from the Dutch/Flemish renaissance tradition of floral still-life painting.

Upcoming Exhibition

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Pouran Jinchi, The Blind Owl, (Pattern), 2013, Pens & copper on Shojoshi paper, 71 pieces, 25.4 x 36.8 cm

Pouran Jinchi

The Blind Owl

September 18 - October 17, 2013

Pouran Jinchi returns to The Third Line with her third solo show, The Blind Owl, continuing her investigation into deconstructing calligraphy and looking into the deeper complexities of the written word. The artist explores the physical form and its signified insinuations through the lens of the dark narratives of The Blind Owl, a major literary work by Iranian author Sadegh Hedayat. This publication, penned in the late 1930s, explores a grim fascination with death and for the most part was banned in Iran. It was this polemic around the book that aroused curiosity in Pouran's youth, and has been a source of inspiration for her work.

Pouran works with various media for the exhibition, employing intricate drawings on paper and paintings, as well as sculptures in copper and plexiglass, to deliver her experience of the confessional narrative.

Upcoming Project Space

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Nadia Ayari, Splitting, 2012, Oil on canvas, 45.7 x 50.8 cm

Nadia Ayari

The Fountain and the Fig

September 18 - October 17, 2013
The Third Line is pleased to introduce New York based artist Nadia Ayari, with her exhibition The Fountain and The Fig opening in the Project Space. Ayari works with densely painted surfaces, where stark contrasting colours form hyper-natural imagery, providing strong allegories of sensual and violent human conditions.

For this Project, Ayari's predominant aesthetic concerns remain with the act of painting itself - but by using heavily conventionalized symbols such as the fig and the tree, she influences the imagery to take on an element of myth-like storytelling.

Abbas Akhavan recipient of the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2014

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Abbas Akhavan, Study for a Garden, 2012, Delfina Foundation, London Residency - image courtesy Christa Holka

The Third Line is proud to announce that artist Abbas Akhavan has been selected as one of the 5 recipients of the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2014.

The Abraaj Group Art Prize is awarded annually to five artists on the basis of proposals for new artworks, which become permanent additions to The Abraaj Group Art Collection following their unveiling at Art Dubai (March 19 - 22, 2014). The recipients of the Abraaj Group Art Prize 2014 are Abbas Akhavan (Iran), Anup Mathew Thomas (India), Basim Magdy (Egypt), Bouchra Khalili (Morocco), Kamrooz Aram (Iran). The artists will be working closely with the selected Guest Curator for 2014, Nada Raza (Pakistan).

The Selection Committee for the prize comprises leading experts in the field of the visual arts including: Antonia Carver, Director, Art Dubai; Dana Farouki, Patron; Salwa Mikdadi, art historian and curator; Jessica Morgan, Daskalopoulos Curator, International Art, Tate; Glenn Lowry, Director, the Museum of Modern Art; and Murtaza Vali, The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2013 Guest Curator.

More information about the artists and the guest curator can be found on the Abraaj Group Art Prize website

THE THIRD LINE ARTISTS

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Laleh Khorramian

Art21: 'New York Close Up'

Artist Laleh Khorramian is one of the 7 new artists added to Art21's Webby-nominated online documentary series 'New York Close Up'.

The first film from the new round - Laleh Khorramian's Epic Animations - features Laleh in her temporary studio and home in upstate New York discussing animations she has created over the last ten years.

Click here to see: LALEH KHORRAMIAN’S EPIC ANIMATIONS

CREDITS | New York Close Up Created & Produced by: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Editor: Morgan Riles & Mary Ann Toman. Artwork: Laleh Khorramian. An Art21 Workshop Production. © Art21, Inc. 2013. All rights reserved.

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On Air Festival, Ikono TV | 6 - 29 September

For the first time ever, ikono is launching an art festival which will be celebrated exclusively on air and on live stream globally online. It will be the first ever art festival to be exclusively broadcasted on TV in more than 30 countries and on live stream globally online in HD 24/7.

The festival will combine contemporary non-narrative films and other time-based art practices from the last few decades with a retrospective from the ikono collection of video clips focusing on art from antiquity to the present. With the festival, ikono will present a thorough dialogue between the moving image and the classic idea of an artwork, challenging ideas of social spaces, everyday life and cultural communication.

Laleh Khorramian's video works Liuto Golis, I Without End and Water Panics In The Sea will be included in the festival programme.

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Shirin Aliabadi, Girls in Car 2, 2005. Deutsche Bank Collection

Shirin Aliabadi

“Stadt in Sicht” (City in Sight) | Museum am Ostwall in the Dortmund U | April 20 – August 4

With around 70 international artists and 280 high-caliber works from the Deutsche Bank Collection, the exhibition “Stadt in Sicht” (City in Sight) at the Museum am Ostwall in the Dortmund U lets visitors experience how artists of the 20th and 21st centuries have seen the world’s cities.

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do it 2013 | Produced by Manchester International Festival and Manchester Art Gallery, in collaboration with Independent Curators International (ICI), New York | Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester | July 5 - September 22

Many of the world’s leading artists are taking part in do it, one of the most ambitious and far reaching exhibition projects ever staged. Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, and commissioned by MIF with Manchester Art Gallery, do it 20 13 will open at Manchester Art Gallery on 5 July 2013 as part of this year’s Manchester International Festival.

do it, conceived in Paris in 1993 as the result of a conversation between Hans Ulrich Obrist and the artists Christian Boltanski and Bertrand Lavier, takes as its starting point a series of written instructions by artists, ranging from the profound and philosophical to the satirical and absurd.

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Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Central African republic, detail from Re-Mapping the continent of Africa, Digital drawings of 62 Countries, 2012


Ala Ebtekar, Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Hayv Kahraman

The Beginning of Thinking | Maraya Art Centre, Sharjah | Curated by Sara Raza | July 17 – September 30

The Beginning of Thinking is an exhibition that explores the shifts, ruptures and disruptions within the works of contemporary artists employing and manipulating the use of traditional geometry within their works. By subverting tradition to create new meanings these artists are providing new methods of measuring space and time through a wide variety of mediums such as drawing, painting, embroidery, textiles, video gaming, informal architectures and installation based practices. The use of geometry is applied and reworked here both artistically and curatorially as a devise for measuring both literal and imaginary spaces. At the same time these artist provide new visual cultural vocabularies that incorporates both tradition and contemporaneity.

Ala Ebtekar will be working on a site specific wall drawing, and Ebtisam Abdulaziz will be presenting "Re-Mapping (Africa)", which was exhibited at the Benin Biennial 2013. Hayv Kahraman's work "Corporal Mapping" will be loaned by the Barjeel Art Foundation for this exhibition.

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Ala Ebtekar, Tunnel in the Sky (3) detail, 2012, Collage, 24 1/4" x 19"

Ala Ebtekar

Migrating Identities | Downstairs Galleries, YBCA, San Francisco | June 28 – September 29

In this exhibition, eight artists—Ala Ebtekar, Michelle Dizon, Naeem Mohaiemen, Meleko Mokgosi, Wangechi Mutu, Yamini Nayar, Ishmael Randall Weeks, and Saya Woolfalk—actively negotiate their relationships with two or more different cultures and the influence on their individual lives.

The work of these artists, all of whom are in their 30s and early 40s, forms a sampling of a generation’s response to the role of cultural diversity in the U.S. Guided by their ability to move fluidly between cultures, and drawing from the uniqueness of their individual journeys, these artists reveal the ways in which their identities have been transformed by the confluence of mobility, cultural retention, and personal history.

Ala Ebtekar Artist’s Talk, co-presented by KQED Education
Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, California | July 25, 7PM

KQED Education and di Rosa come together to celebrate artists from the di Rosa collection that have also been featured on KQED’s popular art series Spark. Teachers can join KQED Education staff at 5:30 pm for a free arts and media workshop focused on Ebtekar’s work preceding the lecture.

LECTURE: FREE. Please RSVP via email to meagan@dirosaart.org or 226-5991 x27 | WORKSHOP: FREE for educators.

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Ebtisam Abdulaziz, Autobiography 07, 2003-2007, Edition of 3, Video Installation

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Three Generations | an Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) exhibition at Sotheby's London | July 23 - August 9, VIP Opening: July 22, 8:30PM-11PM

The Abu Dhabi Music & Arts Foundation (ADMAF) presents Three Generations at Sotheby's London - a snapshot of UAE national creative expression through 12 works by 12 artists from three generations.

Some works seize upon functional elements that form the fabric of traditional Emirati society. By re-appropriating them as objects of aesthetic appreciation, they become both representational forms and evocative statements entrenched in emotion and memory. Others express a sense of ‘glocality’ a spirit that is local yet global, reflecting the identity of the UAE today, while the remainder focus on the psychology of modern society.

The exhibition features both emerging and established Emirati artists, including Ebtisam Abdulaziz who will be exhibiting her work Autobiography 07. This was first shown as part of the 2013 Abu Dhabi Festival exhibition ‘25 Years of Arab Creativity’.

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Slavs and Tatars, Mother Tongues and Father Throats, 2012, wool, yarn, 300 × 490 cm

Slavs and Tatars

In the Heart of the Country | The Collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw | May 14, 2013 – January 6, 2014

The exhibition In the Heart of the Country is the first comprehensive presentation of the international collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, established in 2005.

This exhibition presents over 150 exhibits and is merely a foretaste of the full collection, which will be exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art's future building. It is an attempt to respond to the Polish art world's enduring calls to create a global art collection that would both define and exhibit crucial attitudes and trends in Polish art. The collection examines ties between art, cities, politics and history, in the search for visions of the future and new interpretations of the past. In the Heart of the Country also attempts to shed new light on the Polish experience of political and economic transition (as well as its moral, ethical and social repercussions), and describe the artistic phenomena which accompanied change in Central and Eastern Europe during the second half of the 20th century.

Long Legged Linguistics | ART SPACE PYTHAGORION, Samos, Greece |July 20 - October 10, Opening with Artists present: August 4

This year, Slavs and Tatars, an art collective founded in 2006, will present a multimedia installation, Long Legged Linguistics, commissioned specifically by the Art Space Pythagorion - making this their first solo exhibition in Greece. This particular venue along with Samos’ unique location as a meeting point between the East and the West will serve as an appropriate platform for the multidisciplinary projects by these young artists, whose work has been exhibited in several leading museums around the world, including the Tate Modern, MoMA, NY, and the Centre George Pompidou.

With its trademark mix of high and low media, and irreverent and esoteric discourse, Slavs and Tatars’ Long Legged Linguistics is a sensual account of language politics in Turkey, the former Soviet Union, and southern Europe through the unlikely perspective of sexuality. Taking aim at the power play and
passions hidden behind certain letters and phonemes, the exhibition addresses language head-on via the terminologies of submission and resistance.

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Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Restaged, #1 #3 #4 #7, 2012, The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige

The Third Line is pleased to announce that The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France has put on permanent display works by Joanna Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige that is in the museum's collection.

Vues d’en haut | Centre Pompidou in Metz, France | May 17 - October 7

Joana and Khalil's work Cercles de Confusion is part of the exhibition Vues d’en haut (Views from above), which considers how an elevated perspective, from the first aerial photographs of the mid-nineteenth century to the satellite images, has transformed artists' perception of the world.

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Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, Circles of Confusion, at the MuCEM Marseille

MuCEM | Semi-Permanent Exhibition at The Mediterranean Gallery Level 1, Marseille, France

La Galerie de la Méditerranée, at Musée des civilisations de l’Europe et de la Méditerranée, is intended to discover the Mediterranean societies, with collections ranging from the neolithic phase to the current period. Joana and Khalil's work Cercles de Confusion will be part of the semi-permanent display.

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Youssef Nabil, Self portrait - Essaouira, 2011, Hand coloured silver gelatin print, 75 x 115 cm

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25 Years of Arab Creativity | National Museum of Manama Bahrain | In collaboration with Institut du Monde Arabe | July 7 - September 15

Created to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Paris-based Institut du Monde Arabe, this unprecedented exhibition presents the most exhaustive panorama of contemporary Arab art to date, and features painting, sculpture, photography, video and installations, as well as special commissions and works by UAE artists.

Lamya Gargash

I exist (in some way) | organised by the Bluecoat in partnership with LOOK/13, the Liverpool Arabic Arts Festival, and Belgian nomadic arts centre, Moussem | May 18 - July 14, 2013

Responding to the question ‘Who do you think you are? - the theme of LOOK/13 - this exhibition features the work of photographers who examine constructions of personal and collective identity in the contemporary Arab world. It is being presented as part of the Liverpool Arab Art Festival.

ONGOING EXHIBITIONS

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
KHIAM : L’EMPLOI DU TEMPS | 3 bis F (Aix en Provence), As part of Marseille Provence 2013 - Ulysses / FRAC PACA Project | Residency, artistic workshops and exhibition | June 4 - July 4

Slavs and Tatars
L'ange de l'histoire | Palais des Beaux Arts, Paris | April 25 - July 7

Pouran Jinchi
New Blue and White | Museum of Fine Arts Boston | February 20 - July 14

Le Théorème de Néfertiti (Tea with Nefertiti) | The journey of an art work: the making of an icon | Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris | Curated by: Sam Bardouil and Till Fellrath | April 23 – September 8

Ala Ebtekar
Proximities | What Time Is It There? | Asian Art Museum, San Francisco | May 25 - July 21

Abbas Akhavan
United Nations Revisited | Galerie M, Berlin | April 20 - August 4

Study for a Glass House | Peel Art Gallery, Museum & Archives, Brampton, Ontario Canada | June 2 - August 25

Arwa Abouon
Cross-border: Contemporary Female Artists from the Arabian Mediterranean Region | ZKM Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe | April 27 - September 8

Farhad Moshiri, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Youssef Nabil
Safar/Voyage | Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver, Canada | April 20 – September 15

Huda Lutfi, Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige
Terms & Conditions | Singapore Art Museum | Co-organised by SAM and Barjeel Art Foundation, guest curated by Mandy Merzaban | June 28 - September 8

Babak Golkar
BIENNALEONLINE

Tarek Al-Ghoussein
National Pavilion of Kuwait at the 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia (First official participation) | Biennale: June 1 - November 24

Slavs and Tatars, Farhad Moshiri
Love Me, Love Me Not: Contemporary Art from Azerbaijan and its Neighbours | Tesa 111, Arsenale Nord, at The 55th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia | June 1 - November 24

New Monograph - AVAILABLE AT THE THIRD LINE

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Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - Monograph

Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige - Monograph

Since the mid-1990s, Lebanese artists Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige have worked together in the visual arts and cinema–shooting documentaries and fictions such as "I Want To See," starring Catherine Deneuve and Rabih Mroué and screened at the Cannes Festival in 2008.

Their practice in both fields is imbued with a distinctive aesthetic that occupies spheres of the visible and the fictional, nourishing a fascinating back and forth between life and fiction. Investigative processes, excavation, and the representations of historic, social, cultural, and political factors are at the heart of their practice. In their words: "All our work exists on the frontier of a reality where the question of the territory and its delimitation (that of art, that of personal life), the question of the social body and the individual body, are constantly being posed."

Following the duo's bodies of work since the early psycho-geographic mapping of Beirut to the recent projects gathered together under the title "Lebanese Rocket Society," this book is the first reference monograph dedicated to the artists. Essays by Guggenheim Foundation Curator Suzanne Cotter and cinema critic and historian Jean-Michel Frodon, as well as a conversation held by Michèle Thériault, Director of the Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Montreal, with fellow artists and thinkers (Jalal Toufik, Etel Adnan, Dominique Abensour, etc.), explore the numerous themes of their practice.

Co-published by JRP|Ringier and Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, with the support of the National Centre for Visual Arts, Paris.

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Youssef Nabil

New Monograph

Youssef Nabil's new self-titled monograph, published by Flammarion and launched in March at Art Dubai 2013, is now available in France and UK (distributed by Thames and Hudson), and in USA by September (distributed by Rizzoli). The book includes conversations with noted art critic and historian Hans Ulrich Obrist and New-York based Serbian artist Marina Abramović.

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